International Entrepreneurship: Starting, Developing, and Managing a Global Venture

Combining robust narrative with a wide variety of interesting cases, International Entrepreneurship: Starting, Developing, and Managing a Global Venture focuses on the need for every entrepreneur to at least consider entering the global market in today’s hypercompetitive world. As an ever-growing number of countries become market oriented and developed, the distinction between foreign and domestic markets is becoming less pronounced, and entrepreneurs increasingly need to develop skills to identify opportunities and then manage these opportunities on a global basis. International Entrepreneurship is an ideal resource for students, professors, government officials, and practitioners throughout the world who are interested in this vital, growing area.

Beyond Entrepreneurship An inspiring leader, a compelling vision, a superior strategy, continual innovation and consistently outstanding execution — these are the supporting pillars of enterprises that remain strong and profitable decade after decade.

BEYOND ENTREPRENEURSHIP explores each of these vital elements in depth and illustrates key points using firms like NIKE, L.L. Bean, Wal-Mart, Federal Express and SONY. It provides the blueprint for turning your business into a great company and an enduring one.

Jim Collins, management consultant, and Bill Lazier, CPA, founder and general partner of Bristol Investment Company, are both faculty members at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and longtime advocates of the doctrines espoused in this book.

Master Curriculum Guide: Economics and Entrepreneurship (Master Curriculum Guide) (Master Curriculum Guide) The variety of instructional approaches found in this guide combine learning economics with understanding entrepreneurship. Lessons focus on: How entrepreneurs influence our economy Innovation Profits Markets Lending and borrowing How government and our economy affect entrepreneurs 17 lessons provide background information, required materials, teaching procedures, and student handouts.

Also available:

Learning from the Market: Integrating the Stock Market Game across the Curriculum - ISBN 156183386X
Learning, Earning and Investing: High School - ISBN 1561835706

The Council for Economic Education envisions a world in which people are empowered through economic and financial literacy to make informed and responsible choices throughout their lives as consumers, savers, investors, workers, citizens, and participants in our global economy.

Some of the areas in K-12 education we publish in include:

- Establishing and building credit

- Managing personal finances

- Understanding economics on a local, national, and global level

- Using economics in other subject areas: Social Studies, Geography, History, etc.

Pioneers in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research (International Studies in Entrepreneurship)

Around the world there is an increasing interest in issues of small business and entrepreneurship. In a time with a lot of myths and opinions of the role of entrepreneurs and small business it is vital for a book like this to encapsulate the knowledge that can be gained from the most significant research contributions in the field. Such knowledge is often build upon empirical oriented methods providing policy relevant results for small business owners and entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurship in the Global Firm: Enterprise and Renewal (SAGE Strategy series) Much current literature on globalization and competition focuses on the external environment in which firms operate. Julian Birkinshaw’s book looks within international firms at the dynamics that affect their growth and position. Are local managers seizing power from the centre? Is `glocialization’ the inevitable result of globalization? Based on fresh case evidence gathered in Europe and North America, the findings in this book about multi-national firms and managers make a significant contribution to some of the key debates on the transfer of knowledge in firms; the resource-based view; and the network forms of organization. The initiatives of local managers reflect local knowledge, skills and resources and at the same time impact of the distribution of power in the wider organization. By taking as his perspective that of the subsidiary manager operating in a network, Julian Birkinshaw extends the implications of his findings to all managers in organizations and challenges those who still view organizations as hierarchies.

The Social Entrepreneurship of Change People are concerned with new ways of dealing with the basic needs of all, and old ways are being challenged. Are there ways of coping with crises that reflect the values of participation, decentralization, equity, and support of the environment-the demands of the people? The author draws on the experience of social entrepreneurs worldwide in determining how positive change can take place. His concern with health is not with medicine but with the way all activities of community life in our emerging urban world improve the quality of life. He points to “healthy” policy-how transportation, housing, jobs, environmental concerns, community participation and other major actions of social groups, business, and science can improve health. He argues for healthy cities-cities that make health an important priority in all our attempts to improve our lives.
Customer Review: PROCESSES IN SOCIAL CHANGE
AN excellent introduction to understnding of how change really occurs. The complexity of the issues forces people to use multiple interrelated skills. Important for politicians, students, community workers, citizens, and others involved in change. A must read. This is one of the wisest people dealing with health and communities.
Customer Review: Superb understanding of Change
This book covers the processes of change in a complex world. Duhl knows no boundaries…tying together a wide variety of disciplines and ideas, to help people begin and continue the change process. His preoccupation is with values has a strong spiritual base

Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research: Disciplinary Perspectives (International Handbook Series on Entrepreneurship)

The Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research: Disciplinary Perspectives strives to increase awareness and stimulate research in numerous important topics in the field, particularly those underdeveloped areas of study with more relevance to scholarship and theory than to the practice of entrepreneurship. For example, less research has focused on the importance of the macroeconomic environment to firm founding, on social and kinship ties as sources of entrepreneurial activity, and the interaction between institutions and entrepreneurship. We do so by drawing attention to the relevant research in the disciplines of economics and sociology. This volume of the handbook hopes to begin to bridge the gap between the research in entrepreneurship and the core disciplines by introducing views of entrepreneurship from disciplinary perspectives.  As such, this volume of the handbook is intended to complement and build on the first volume by focusing on a select set of issues and examining them in an in-depth manner.

Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (Foundations of the Market Economy) This well-written book is the first to deal with entrepreneurship in all its aspects. It considers the economic, psychological, political, legal and cultural dimensions of entrepreneurship from a market-process perspective.

Academic Entrepreneurship: The Role of Intrapreneurship in Developing Faculty Job Satisfaction The academic literature is replete with evidence of the positive benefits associated with nurturing and maintaining an intrapreneurial culture within organizations. However, there is a gap in the literature as to the role intrapreneurship plays within academic institutions, which have historically been reticent to foster and embrace intrapreneurial activity. This study segments the professorate into two groups: Academic entrepreneurs and traditional faculty members, and captures the perceptions of each group relative to the pay, co-worker, supervisor, opportunity, work, and job-in-general dimensions of job satisfaction using the Abridged Job Descriptive Index and Abridged Job-in-General scales. The author defines academic entrepreneurship as engaging in the process of creating and exploiting new opportunities from within the confines of an academic institution. ANOVA was utilized to determine if there were statistically significant differences in the aforementioned dimensions of job satisfaction between academic entrepreneurs and traditional faculty. The findings reveal that 42.5% of respondents view themselves as academic entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurship The steps needed to start your own business are included in this comprehensive learning package. Aspects covered included: marketing, finance, and management. Readers will also learn about legal considerations.